Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07

iDined by highway Of steel. The asso.
citation adjourned 1T Ls Vita Pass, saboard
an excursion train, Sunday last, at al
elevation Of 10 $50 feet above the sea
level. TWenty-one states were repre-
scented, and ten Of the knights of the quill
were from Texas. Adsir OF the Marshall
Messenger was the only one VINO did not
return directly home, but went on TO d.
kota to see his sweetheart
Next year the national association VIII
meet in San Antonio, the tirsG time 1t has
ever come so far southwark.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy is
girding up its IONS for move on Texas,
and it is written in the great railroad
Journals Of the country that the company
desires to build to Fort Worth and make
this city It's southern terminus. The
child born before I8S7 dies will not pratt
tie until Fort Worth has fifteen outlets
| by rail-
| F. S. Latham, 8 commercial traveller
from Memphis, Tennessee, was in Fort
| Worth yesterday on his first tour of
| Texas. Mr. Latham says since the st.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas is running
through trains to Memphis from Texas
points the merchants Of the city have de-
termined to enter the field
for share of Texas trade.
Mempis people are rejoicing over the fact
that they will soon have direct line to
Fort Worth, and hope to become better
acquainted with our people. Memphis
and 2 ne Bluff are now building rail-
road connecting the two cities, and THIS
new line will reduce the distance De
tween Memphis and Fort Worth several
miles. At Pine Bluff it connects with the
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas.
Another step in its advance to Denver
was taken by the Fort Worth and Denver
yesterday, through trains being put on pc
tween Fort Worth and Clarendon, 2IIt
miles from Fort Worth. The first train
} from Clarendon came in Yesterday. II
is probable tnst g new time csrd VII pc
| issued ss soon as the mis-
souri, Pacific changes time which
j.. will be about Octooe. 9TH or lOtn.
It is the intention to ha' the nortnoouno
train leave between end O'CLOCK a. m
and returning arrive 81 3 or O'CLOCK p
m. The Panhandle Construction Com
pany operates the road from Clarendon to
the end of the track and csrfles psssen-
: gers at the regular rate OF cents pei
mile. Chief Engineer Bissell who was ID
! Fort Worth yesterday says the track /;
2 now laid $50 miles from Fort Worth and
' within sixteen miles of Tascosa
The crossing of Canadian will BE-
t made at point about four miles oeyonG
Tascosa. The track will pass out OF
Texas eight miles below the north
e western corner Of the Panhandle, anC
( 103 miles OF TRACK Is still to be laid il
e Texas. Mr.. Bissell ssys he sees nothing
e to prevent the completion OF the linz
g in Texas by January l, 1888, and by the
S middle of March or April the linz
: will he completed to Denver.
y third rail is now being laid between
e Pueblo and Trinidad on the Denver ane
s Rio Grande, and heavy force is at WorE
t this side of Trinidad. Mr.. Bissen says
e the graders on the Southern Kansas nave
L stopped work at Panhandle, ana II uoe ::
rot look as if that company ntended u
q build beyond that point at present. I'M
II leaves gap of fourteen miles 0etWeel
q the two roads.